This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds' home, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 24th day of January 1937, in accordance with request by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Florence & Edith Edmonds, Frances Y. Morrow, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Helen Storey and Helen Ellington.

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1. GC: You will have before you Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present here, and work on the present lesson, copy of which I hold in my hand. You will continue the discourse on the lesson Wisdom.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here; as a group, as individuals, and their work upon the lesson Wisdom.
3. In continuing with the discussion upon the Wisdom of the Father, let first each of you attune yourselves to that consciousness as may be had through attuning self in this meditation:
4. OUR FATHER WHO ART IN THE HEAVEN OF OUR OWN CONSCIOUSNESS, SO ATTUNE MY MIND, MY BODY, WITH THE INFINITE LOVE THOU HAST SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN, THAT I IN BODY, IN MIND, MAY KNOW THE WISDOM OF THE FATHER IN JESUS, THE CHRIST.
5. Then it behooves each to be more aware of that love as brings into the experience of each soul the understanding that we as individuals cannot bear the cross of life alone but that the Father in His Wisdom has given to each an ensample, a promise to the children of men - "which is indeed mine now if I will but choose the love of Jesus in my daily life, in my walks among my fellow men."
6. In Wisdom thou wilt not find fault. In Wisdom thou wilt not condemn any. In Wisdom thou wilt not cherish grudges. In Wisdom thou wilt love those, even those that despitefully use thee; even those that speak unkindly.
7. "In the Wisdom of Jesus do I claim the promises of God and know His Presence. Though in those things that are not always understood, it is His Wisdom that makes for the changing of the affairs of the material experiences, the environs, the opportunities for those who profess their faith to give of themselves in body, in mind, that they may indeed know the Wisdom of God in their experiences."
8. Know that the Wisdom of Jesus - that is the promise to all - is a part of the daily life, and not to be put on as a coat or a cloak but to be part and parcel of each and every entity.
9. This is the Wisdom to know, "As I purpose in my heart to do, it is in accord with that I profess with my mouth." It is Wisdom that the acts of the body, of the mind, be in accordance with that proclaimed to thy children, to thy neighbor, to thy friend, to thy foe.
10. For Life is in its material activity the Wisdom of the Father that men may everywhere manifest, that they - too - may be a part of the consciousness of the Cosmic Consciousness.
11. For as the ways of life become more complex individuals see rather the material than the mental and spiritual.
12. Yet to thee, to whom the Book of Life - yea, the record of thine experiences - has been opened, there is the awareness that ye are indeed the children of God. And as children in thy Wisdom ye may approach boldly the Throne of Mercy. For the prayers of the righteous are heard, for they have attuned in Wisdom to the God-Consciousness within, and have come to the realization that they are not alone but that He walketh and He talketh with those who have called upon His Name, and who day by day show forth in their conversation their love. For Jesus is the Way, Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is the Mediator, Jesus is Wisdom to those who will harken to do His biddings.
13. And as He hath given, "If ye love me, keep my commandments; for they are not grievous to bear. For I will bear them with thee, I will wipe away thy tears; I will comfort the brokenhearted, I will bring all to those in the ways that are in the Wisdom of God for thy expressions through each experience, in each activity of thine."
14. For thy soul in its Wisdom seeketh expression with Him. Smother it not in the doubts and the fears of materiality but in the spirit of love and truth that encompasseth all, and that is open to ye who have set thy hearts, thy faces, toward the love that is in Jesus, thy Friend, thy Brother.
15. These, my brethren - yea, these my beloved children - Know that in Him is the truth, the light. Ye have seen a great light. Ye have touched upon the Wisdom of the Father, as is shown in the Son.
16. Then make thy paths straight. Let thy conversation, thy wishes, thy desires be rather as one with Him who thought it not robbery to be equal with God.
17. YE know the way. Do ye stumble in ignorance or in selfishness? Do ye doubt for the gratifying of thy body or for the fulfilling of the body-appetites?
18. YE know the way. Let, then, that love of the Infinite fire thee to action, to DOING! And indeed live as hath been shown.
19. Study to show thyself in body, in mind, approved unto that thou hast chosen in the words of Jesus thy Master, thy Brother - in dividing the words of life in such measures that all who know thee, yea that contact thee, take cognizance of the fact that thou walkest and thou talkest with Jesus day by day; keeping thyself in body, in mind, unspotted from the world.
20. This is the Wisdom of God and is thine if ye will but claim it as thine own.
21. And may the grace and the mercy and the peace of a life lived in thine own consciousness be thine through Him that is able to present our lives before the throne of God spotless, white as snow, washed in the blood of the sacrifices made in our own daily experience - even as He has shown us the way.
22. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading - "Norfolk Study Group #1."

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